Hossein Hamadani

Hossein Hamadani (1 January 1955-7 October 2015) was a Brigadier-General of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps of Iran.

Biography
Hossein Hamadani was born on 1 January 1955 in Hamadan, Iran, and he joined the Iranian Army in 1970. He took part in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and he later became a member of the IRGC, the protectors of the Islamic system of Iran. He put down the 1979 rebellion of communist Kurds in Iranian Kurdistan and also fought in the Iran-Iraq War, and in 2009-2010 he put down protests following elections. From 2009 to 2014 he led the IRGC in Tehran, but he later headed to Syria on an advisory mission to the Syrian Arab Army; Iran had deployed 15,000 troops to Syria. On 7 October 2015 he was killed on the outskirts of Aleppo by the Islamic State while training Quds Force units.